# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-barclay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:56.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-barclay"
name: "Vera Barclay"
slug: "vera-barclay"
description: "Vera Charlesworth Barclay was a British scouting pioneer and writer. She was an early exponent of female leadership in the Scout movement and played a leading role in the introduction of the Wolf Cub programme for younger boys, both in the United Kingdom and in France. Barclay wrote numerous children's stories and instructional Scouting handbooks, and in later life wrote about her Christian faith."
tagline: "British writer and Co-founder cubs 1916"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vera_Barclay.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-11-11"
deathDate: "1989-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.877322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Barclay"
    title: "Vera Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Barclay"
    title: "Vera Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Barclay"
    title: "Vera Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Баркли, Вера"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Barclay"
    title: "Vera Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Barclay"
    title: "Vera Barclay"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3555698"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump